Current Industry Connections (IC) Activities

IC12-006 IEEE Actionable Data Book for Education
Creating and demonstrating prototypes for new methods of activity-based mobile learning via an open-standard e-book format with new forms of interactive learning technology and functionality.

IC15-003 Smart City Compliance Indicators
Define the factors that determine the "smartness" of a city. Identify the key indicators of "smartness" that are required for a city to be called a smart city and develop a smart city rating index.

IC15-004 3D Body Processing
Bringing together an ecosystem of players to propose new standards around enabling 3D body processing which includes the capture, processing, storage, sharing and (augmented) representation for “Of-the-body” and “On-the-body” technologies.

IC15-005-02 New Ethernet Applications
The growing diversity of applications within enterprise, campus, and data center networks requires new Ethernet standards to be developed. This is evident by recent standardization activities related to 2.5 Gb/s, 5Gb/s and 25 Gb/s Ethernet, as well as subsequent conversations related on introducing new Ethernet solutions at these rates. The goal of this activity is to assess emerging requirements for enterprise, campus, and data center networks, identify gaps not currently addressed by IEEE 802.3 standards, and facilitate building industry consensus towards proposals to initiate new standards development efforts.

IC16-001 Open Data
Stakeholders assessing existing Open Data initiatives and proposing new standards for making data “open.” Creating a globally accepted definition, format and structure for Open Data to enable interoperability, whereby Open Data sets from different sources can be easily combined into larger and more valuable data sets.

IC16-004 Augmented Reality in the Oil/Gas/Electric Industry
Stakeholders collaborating to identify requirements, standards needs and other issues, to help enable augmented reality solutions, as well as potentially mixed and virtual reality solutions, that can benefit the oil, gas and electric industries.

IC16-006-02 International Roadmap for Devices and Systems (IRDS)
This Industry Connections activity will focus on an International Roadmap for Devices and Systems (“IRDS”) via establishment of an interest group closely aligned with the new electronics industry ecosystem. Activity members will collaborate in the development of this roadmap, as well as engaging with other segments of the IEEE in complementary activities (Rebooting Computing Initiative, Computer Society and other supporting IEEE societies) that help assure alignment and consensus across a range of stakeholders.

IC17-001 IEEE 802 Network Enhancements for the Next Decade
This activity will assess emerging requirements for IEEE 802-based communication infrastructures, identify commonalities, gaps, and trends not currently addressed by IEEE 802 standards and projects, and facilitate building industry consensus towards proposals to initiate new standards development efforts.

IC17-002 Digital Inclusion through Trust and Agency
This Industry Connections Activity will identify and create consensus throughout technologies that have a potential to alter policy and business landscape, with particular focus on disruptive innovation. It will address inclusion through trust and agency, working toward solutions that promote agency over our data, cyber-identity and internet-related security including, but not limited to, distributed ledger technologies.

IC17-003 India Robotics Roadmap
The objectives of this roadmapping activity focused on India are to better understand and identify what existing Robotics and Automation solutions exist across public and private sectors, requirements of stakeholders, and how existing roadblocks and impeding processes can be minimized to facilitate the adoption and growth of these technologies with particular attention to socio-economic, cultural, environmental, and sustainability factors.

IC17-004 Electric Vehicle In-Motion Wireless Power Transfer
This group intends to create a whitepaper on how in-motion wireless charging could be used in a smart city context, develop guidelines for designing and testing an in-motion wireless power transfer testbed, develop test use cases to validate road-side and vehicle-side components as well as vehicle-infrastructure interaction, and identify areas for standardization.

IC17-005 PLC Test Beds in India
This IC program will help in further engaging with various stakeholders such as Industries, Academia, and Utility companies, to establish a series of Test Beds for PLC. The Test Beds will provide an ecosystem for various stakeholders, ranging from established industries to enterprising startups, to develop and test their solutions that have PLC as the core technology.

IC17-006 Big Data Governance and Metadata Management
The proposed work will guide how big data and big data exchange is governed. It will enable consumers of big data to better understand what is available and how to access it. It will help producers of big data properly set expectations and take steps to ensure that their datasets can be maintained and shared in accordance with their wishes. It will help organizations that store big data make decisions concerning how the big data is stored, curated, exposed, and otherwise governed so as to best serve consumers and producers.

IC17-007 Neuro Tech for Brain-Machine Interfacing
This activity will look at the deployment and commercialization of Brain-Machine Interfacing (BMI)/Brain Computer Interface (BCI)-based solutions requiring researchers, manufacturers, and regulatory agencies to ensure these devices comply with well-defined criteria on their safety and effectiveness. BMI/BCI systems typically require integration of multiple sub-components comprising measuring and analysis of neural activity, and provision of feedback to the user through different means (including displays, virtual reality systems, haptic interfaces and exo-skeletons, among others).

IC17-008 PLC-IoT Interoperability and Compliance Testing
This IC activity will focus on selection of the labs for the testing, analysis and publication of the results, identification of the ambiguities and gaps in the standard and related test procedures, generation of additional use cases, and broader industry engagement with the goal of the acceleration of the adoption of the IEEE 1901.1 standard during its development and after the publication.

IC17-010 Automotive Emerging Technology Initiative
The IEEE-SA has been active in Connected Vehicle standards, as well as related standards activities focused in areas such as EV integration and Autonomous Systems. This new Automotive Technology Initiative will provide a platform that brings together the global technical community working across these automotive industry topics in a collaborative environment to share knowledge, discuss issues and identify standards related solutions to drive innovation and accelerate emerging technology adoption.

IC17-011 Connectivity Harmonization of the Digital Citizen
This ICAID proposes a multi-stream effort to address the design implications and technology implementations with a unique, core focus on the development of the immersive environment that will impact all present and future Digital Citizens. With the evolution towards ubiquitous connectivity of the “Digital Citizen”, the interoperability and standardization of devices, data, and connectivity are critical for maintaining consistent and persistent states across multiple identity interactions and ultimately, the resultant environment.

IC17-012 Supply Chain & Trials Standardized Technology and Implementation
IEEE is one of few organizations seeking to address the issue of security and authenticity of the food and drug supply through interoperability of data systems. The scope of this ICAID encompasses work streams that touch upon multiple facets of patient and consumer safety and supply chain and clinical trials optimization.

IC17-013 11073 PHD Cybersecurity
The mission of this activity is to build common ground about cybersecurity in the Personal Health Device community and create an “information security toolbox” appropriate for the IEEE 11073 PHD family of standards.

IC17-014 Digital Literacy
The long-term goal of this work is to put in place tools that will help ensure that digital literacy receives the attention and investment it deserves in the context both of domestic and overseas development policies. By establishing a standardized definition and taxonomy, the articulation and coordination of efforts becomes more holistic and coordinated. By identifying best practices and making progress towards metrics, stakeholders and interested parties including governments, schools, the private sector, and other community anchors such as libraries can work to improve the effectiveness of their work in this area.

IC17-015-01 Optical Networks 2020
Optical Networks 2020 (ON2020) is a global collaborative that drives innovative optical network solutions to better meet the optical networking demands in the cloud era towards year 2020 and beyond. It aims to define new optical network requirements and specifications, develop general network technology roadmaps and evolution scenarios, and foster an open and sustainable ecosystem for end users, service providers, and equipment and component vendors to collectively address the optical networking demands in the cloud era.

IC17-016-01 IC Industry Consortium on Learning Engineering (ICICLE)
In recent years, the use of technology to support the way people learn in school, on the job, and on their own has accelerated dramatically. These technologies include learning management systems, MOOCS, authoring tools, mobile learning environments, serious games, simulations, applications of virtual and augmented reality, learning record stores, open badges, pedagogical agents (AI), online laboratories, and much more. Learning Engineering will offer guidance concerning the capabilities and limitations of the underlying technologies; how to use them to accomplish instructional goals; and how to evaluate the effectiveness of both the technologies and the various pedagogical innovations they allow.

IC17-017-01 Blockchain Asset Exchange
This program will design and develop a decentralized trading platform where entities and individuals could collaborate on creating, transferring, and capitalizing intellectual properties. Instead of a centralized authority, blockchain-based smart contracts will play the role of endorsing and ensuring every trading operation on the platform.

IC17-018-01 IEEE VR/AR Advisory Board
IEEE VR/AR Advisory Board is a collaboration of experts developing advice, proposals and other inputs to support future IEEE standards activities related to virtual and augmented reality applications. IEEE VR/AR Advisory Board will also serve as an ideal home for other work items (e.g. white papers, events), separate from formal IEEE VR/AR Working Groups that focus on standards development.